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Prepare to enjoy a variety of apples
LVHS Homecoming was fun for all
Resident-raised oysters released
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OCTOBER 1 - 7, 2021
In temporary new home, NOSH reopens NOSH founder Courtney Callahan, of Locust Valley, said, “giving what they have or what After a fire destroyed its they can, with great love.” Glen Cove headquarters in From the start, community August, NOSH, a food delivery members, from business ownservice and a program of the ers to civic organizations to North Shore Soup Kitchen, has individuals, found ways to relocated to St. Hyadonate, and drivers cinth’s Church, in continued deliverGlen Head, until it ing food. can find a permaNOSH was nent location. The founded in March fire left the nonprof2020 to meet the it organization increased need for scrambling to find food assistance creways to continue ated by the coronaserving the 500-plus virus pandemic. It families in Bayville, is staffed by volunLocust Valley, Glen teers who each Cove, Roslyn and week deliver free Sea Cliff who rely emergency NOSHon the weekly groBags, g roceries COURTNEY ceries. needed to prepare The fire, on Aug. CALLAHAN two meals for a fam24 at Veterans of ily of four, with Foreign Wars Post NOSH founder additional bags for 347, resulted in the larger families. The total loss of NOSH’s freezing food that NOSH distributes is and refrigeration equipment, donated by Long Island charias well as its inventory of thou- ties and local businesses. sands of pounds of food — NOSH is now in the process enough to feed its client base of restocking, which will be for two months. The loss was possible now that it has a locacatastrophic, but did not stop tion for drop-offs, walk-ins and the program’s volunteers from storage. It reopened on Sept. 20 continuing its mission. “People are being very dear,” CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
BY JILL NOSSA
jnossa@liherald.com
Elisa Dragotto/Herald
RAYNHAM HALL MUSEUM’S Colonial Day featured demonstrations of paper-making and weaving.
Raynham Hall brings Colonial days back to the hamlet Museum returns to its roots for an afternoon BY LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Did you know that muskets, the weapons used in the Revolutionary War, were so inaccurate that the combatants didn’t bother to aim at their targets? They couldn’t hit anyone past 100 yards with the muzzle-loaded long guns, Patrick Mantle, of the Huntington Militia, explained, and they took 15 to 20 seconds to load. The militia’s demonstra-
tion of warfare was but one of several educational opportunities visitors enjoyed at Oyster Bay’s Raynham Hall Museum on Colonial Day, on Sept. 12. “They would just shoot into a crowd to demoralize them,” said Mantle, who demonstrated how to load and shoot a musket. “And it was only effective if everyone fired together to be one wall of steel. Warfare was not for sissies back in the 18th century.”
Drawing a large crowd, the museum’s annual Colonial Day event also featured instruction in the art of weaving, cooking and even making paper, demonstrated by period-costumed re-enactors. John Collins, president of Raynham’s board of directors, greeted visitors at the entranceway of the museum, a structure that dates back to 1738. All were invited to tour the house museum for free. “The reason for Colonial CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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eople are being very dear, giving what they have or what they can, with great love.